How the Hell do I respond to this?
So N's mother likes to send those stupid Have a Happy Day type emails with scrolling marquees and glitter and blinking gifs with happy, feel-good messages that 2% of the time make me feel good and the other 98% of the time make me wanna barf.
Tonight, though, she sends THIS bullshit, and I don't think she was being ironic...
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE - 21ST CENTURY STYLE
Twas the month before Christmas*
*When all through our land,*
*Not a Christian was praying*
*Nor taking a stand.*
*See the PC Police had taken away,*
*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*
*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*
*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*
*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*
*December 25th is just a 'Holiday'.*
*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*
*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*
*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod*
*Something was changing, something quite odd! *
*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*
*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*
*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*
*At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.*
*At K-Mart and Staples and Penney's and Sears*
*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*
*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*
*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*
*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*
*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton!*
*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*
*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*
*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*
*Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*
*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*
*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*
*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*
*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*
*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*
*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,
not Happy Holiday !*
Please, all Christians join together and
wish everyone you meet during the holidays a
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Christ is The Reason for the Christ-mas Season!
If you agree please forward, if not, simply delete.
*****************************************************************************************************
Ain't that blinky light bullshit the icing on the fucking cake? That just REALLY drives the point home, doesn't it? OMFG
Now the thing is, SHE KNOWS I'M PAGAN (or at the very least, NOT CHRISTIAN). She knew that optimystik was in my and misslynx's handfasting several years ago and he explained to her the pagan nature of that. She likely sent this thing out to lots of people in a different email, but I was the ONLY recipient in this particular email.
N and I are just at a fucking LOSS as to what the hell she was thinking sending THIS email to ME. And the hell if I'm going to simply delete if I don't agree. FUCK THAT NOISE. I'm LIVID. N is appalled and says he has absolutely no defense for her.
Aside from the anti-consumerist aspect to this piece of I-don't-know-what, it's one of the most hypocritical, UN-Christian things I've seen. Wow. I would rather have had her send me that shitty, racist Canadian National Anthem forward.
I mean, do I take this apart, piece by piece and share with her a few facts about this time of year and Christianity? Do I need to bring Mithras into this? Or the fact that Biblical scholars tend to agree that Jesus, if he even existed, was born in the spring?
Or do I point out quotes from the Bible about how being the best sort of Christian meant practicing in seclusion/behind closed doors? What of acceptance and, oh, knowledge of other traditions around that time of year? Perhaps informing her that Ramadan is a lunar-based time of reflection and fasting that isn't specifically related to December. It's in August/September, currently, though a few years back, it was in December.
Maybe take a psych stance and point out that no one is "taking Christmas away" from Christians, and if they feel threatened, perhaps it is because they are insecure in their faith and maybe they need to reacquaint themselves with the roots of their religion?
Or do I just respond with "Please tell me this was meant as irony so that I don't have to think less of you and school you in your own religion"? Maybe, "Please do your fucking research on your own effing religion before sending this hypocritical bullshit around"? But that's probably too harsh.
What do I say?!
HELP!
Tonight, though, she sends THIS bullshit, and I don't think she was being ironic...
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE - 21ST CENTURY STYLE
Twas the month before Christmas*
*When all through our land,*
*Not a Christian was praying*
*Nor taking a stand.*
*See the PC Police had taken away,*
*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*
*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*
*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*
*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*
*December 25th is just a 'Holiday'.*
*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*
*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*
*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod*
*Something was changing, something quite odd! *
*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*
*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*
*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*
*At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.*
*At K-Mart and Staples and Penney's and Sears*
*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*
*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*
*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*
*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*
*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton!*
*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*
*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*
*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*
*Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*
*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*
*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*
*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*
*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*
*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*
*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,
not Happy Holiday !*
Please, all Christians join together and
wish everyone you meet during the holidays a
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Christ is The Reason for the Christ-mas Season!
If you agree please forward, if not, simply delete.
*****************************************************************************************************
Ain't that blinky light bullshit the icing on the fucking cake? That just REALLY drives the point home, doesn't it? OMFG
Now the thing is, SHE KNOWS I'M PAGAN (or at the very least, NOT CHRISTIAN). She knew that optimystik was in my and misslynx's handfasting several years ago and he explained to her the pagan nature of that. She likely sent this thing out to lots of people in a different email, but I was the ONLY recipient in this particular email.
N and I are just at a fucking LOSS as to what the hell she was thinking sending THIS email to ME. And the hell if I'm going to simply delete if I don't agree. FUCK THAT NOISE. I'm LIVID. N is appalled and says he has absolutely no defense for her.
Aside from the anti-consumerist aspect to this piece of I-don't-know-what, it's one of the most hypocritical, UN-Christian things I've seen. Wow. I would rather have had her send me that shitty, racist Canadian National Anthem forward.
I mean, do I take this apart, piece by piece and share with her a few facts about this time of year and Christianity? Do I need to bring Mithras into this? Or the fact that Biblical scholars tend to agree that Jesus, if he even existed, was born in the spring?
Or do I point out quotes from the Bible about how being the best sort of Christian meant practicing in seclusion/behind closed doors? What of acceptance and, oh, knowledge of other traditions around that time of year? Perhaps informing her that Ramadan is a lunar-based time of reflection and fasting that isn't specifically related to December. It's in August/September, currently, though a few years back, it was in December.
Maybe take a psych stance and point out that no one is "taking Christmas away" from Christians, and if they feel threatened, perhaps it is because they are insecure in their faith and maybe they need to reacquaint themselves with the roots of their religion?
Or do I just respond with "Please tell me this was meant as irony so that I don't have to think less of you and school you in your own religion"? Maybe, "Please do your fucking research on your own effing religion before sending this hypocritical bullshit around"? But that's probably too harsh.
What do I say?!
HELP!